Of Lies and Shadows by R.G. Angel

Francesca

I was promised freedom.

One job: spy on Dante Forzi, the mafia boss who terrifies even his enemies.

All I had to do was get close. Close enough to gather intel.

Close enough to lose myself.

I came to destroy him.

Now I tuck in his children at night and dream of his hands on my skin.

But the deeper I fall, the more I realize: no one escapes the mafia.

Not alive.

Dante

I don’t believe in softness.

Not in this life.

But she makes my children laugh. She fills the house with a warmth I didn’t know I missed.

And when she looks at me, I forget what I am.

She lied to me, so I made her mine.

Now I have everything to lose.

And I’ll kill to keep it.